Comments on: Push Gmail on the iPhone

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:37:01 +0000

I heard people talking about that, but I haven’t really experienced it too much. You could try setting it to fetch email at a specified interval as a “backup”, and see if it’s still able to use IMAP IDLE with that enabled.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:34:40 +0000

That’s only for Mac though.

By: Ben, Toronto, ON

Ben, Toronto, ON — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:58:59 +0000

I had the same need and managed to get a workaround by setting up a rule on my outlook to send high priority messages to my phone via text. Some providers will let you do this, the catch is your mail server has to allow you to setup rules to make this work

By: dkl

dkl — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:32:34 +0000

Regarding Thunderbird timing out, I found the following info that might suggest the problem:

[hmailserver.com]
[bugzilla.mozilla.org]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:26:48 +0000

Thank you so much! Works like a charm!

By: dkl

dkl — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:21:12 +0000

I followed the instructions to set up Thunderbird for Gmail, but I am running into the problem where Thunderbird stopped getting new emails after a while. It would work for a few hours after initial startup or after I force check emails, but then next day I won’t get any Prowl notifications. Same IMAP IDLE settings, Growl for Windows and Thunderbird are both running, just no new emails in Thunderbird. Have you seen this before?

By: Jestre

Jestre — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:31:17 +0000

This would be nice if it supported some kind of filter, e.g. for high priority messages only or for messages from certain senders. This would enable those who receive multiple hundreds or more messages per day to use it without being barraged by notifications.

By: Pieter

Pieter — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:55:11 +0000

Whoops, looks like my link broke. Anyway, the image is on the bottom of Prowl’s homepage.

By: Pieter

Pieter — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:53:16 +0000

Ryan wrote:

Exactly. I can’t wait to have it only send notifications when I’m not in front of my computer. That would make this even more useful.

Have I got good news for you then, I just found out this is already possible! Use the option on the bottom of [prowl.weks.net] to have Prowl not send any messages before a certain period of idle time.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:47:08 +0000

Ron wrote:

what about the option mentioned at techcrunch (looks a lot simple)

I know why I don't want that app... it only works with one Gmail account. I need something that is capable of handling multiple accounts because Gmail also manages our CyberNet mail.

Pieter wrote:

Prowl can also be used for different purposes. For example, it would be cool if Prowl notified you when new IM messages appear on your screen if you’re not in front of your PC.

Exactly. I can't wait to have it only send notifications when I'm not in front of my computer. That would make this even more useful.

Pieter wrote:

Since edits appear to be broken

Yeah, I don't know what's up with them. I'll have to troubleshoot that this weekend.